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Volume 110 • Issue 34 • 10 pages
A Texas A&M Tradition Since 1893
www.thebattalion.net
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Human Resources offers new intern program
By Lauren Smith
THE BATTALION
Students can gain professional-
el work experience with internship
positions now available through the
i A&M Human Resources
Classification and Compensation
lice.
Departments can create student
intern titles that can be filled by under
graduate and graduate students.
Students from other universities may
also be hired into non-affiliated student
em titles.
‘This program will allow students
to utilize the lessons and the skills they
leam in class, specific to their major, to
assist specific departments with proj-
framed at enhancing the A&M
tommunity,” said Narietha Carter,
aecutive director of Experiential
Education for the Student Government
Association.
The office announced the program
on Oct. 1 and developed it with the
Office of Student Financial Aid and the
Career Center.
Manager of Classification and
Compensation Elizabeth Schwartz
said the idea came up last fall and
became a priority project in the spring
because of high interest.
“There were a lot of interested con
stituents, but with all of the budget
issues, it took awhile to get it under
way,” Schwartz said.
The internship positions will be
posted with the Career Center and
Student Financial Aid. Participating
departments can post positions at
JobsforAggies.tamu.edu as well.
“It was critical for the Office of
Financial Aid to be involved
because this is student employ
ment,” Schwartz said.
The internship titles in this program
are not meant for routine clerical
duties, but to provide work experience
that will prepare them for professional
positions after graduation, as stated in
the program’s summary posted on the
HR department Web site.
The program is for paid internships
only, and it is recommended that stu
dent interns work a minimum of 20
hours per week and no more than 25
hours per week during fall and spring
semesters, so students can obtain their
education while participating in the
program.
Students may work up to 40 hours a
week during breaks between semesters
and during the summer.
Many A&M degree programs con
sider giving course credit for intern
ships. The number of hours given and
eligibility requirements differ by pro
gram, so students should consult the
undergraduate catalog, graduate cata
log, their department or adviser.
This program is far reaching, and it
hopes to encompass as many depart
ments as possible,” Carter said.
Kevin Cazalas, a sophomore busi
ness major, said he is excited about this
new opportunity because he likes to
spend his summers doing non-school
related activities that do not offer pro
fessional experience.
“The fact that I can get profes
sional experience at the University
during a semester sounds like an
unbelievable deal,” Cazalas said. “In
the summer, the last thing on my
mind is school, so I can keep it that
way by taking care of building my
resume during the academic year.”
See Interns on page 8
The Human Resources Classification and
Compensation Office announced the
introduction of a new student internship
program.
► Student Intern titles provide professional-
level work experience under staff in A&M
departments.
► It is recommended that student interns
worka minimum of 20 hours per week for
at least one semester.
► The program is for paid internships only.
► Positions are available to undergraduate
or graduate students at A&M or other
universities.
SETH FREEMAN • THE BATTALION
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RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION
Senior nuclear engineering major Aaron Moreno, left, and junior engi
neering technology major Mike Roberson begin their ride at the flagpole
in front of the Academic Building Tuesday afternoon. The two were rid
ing with about 10 other riders who are part of the Texas A&M Men's
Cycling team. They are practicing for a criterium race this weekend
which will take place outside Reed Arena.
Court turns down
Bush appeal over
medical marijuana
By Gina Holland
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court cleared the way
Tuesday for state laws allowing
ill patients to smoke marijuana
if a doctor recommends it.
Justices turned down the Bush
administration’s request to con
sider whether the federal govern
ment can punish doctors for rec
ommending or perhaps just talk
ing about the benefits of the drug
to sick patients. An appeals court
said the government cannot.
Nine states have laws legaliz
ing marijuana for people with
physician recommendations or
prescriptions: Alaska, Arizona,
California, Colorado, Hawaii,
Maine, Nevada, Oregon and
Washington. And 35 states have
passed legislation recognizing
marijuana’s medicinal value.
Federal law bans the use of
pot under any circumstances.
The case gave the court an
opportunity to review its second
medical marijuana case in two
years. The last one involved
cannabis clubs.
This one presented a more
difficult issue, pitting free-
speech rights of doctors against
government power to keep
physicians from encouraging
illegal drug use. A ruling for the
Bush administration would have
made the state medical marijua
na laws unusable.
Some California doctors and
patients, in filings at the Supreme
Court, compared doctor informa
tion on pot to physicians’ advice
on “red wine to reduce the risk
of heart disease. Vitamin C,
acupuncture, or chicken soup.”
The administration argued
that public heath was at stake.
“The provision of medical
advice — whether it be that the
patient take aspirin or Vitamin C,
lose or gain weight, exercise or
rest, smoke or refrain from smok
ing marijuana — is not pure
speech. It is the conduct of the
practice of medicine. As such, it
is subject to reasonable regula
tion,” Solicitor General Theodore
Olson said in court papers.
In states with medical mari
juana laws, doctors can give writ
ten or oral recommendations on
marijuana to patients with cancer,
HIV and other serious illnesses.
Even some supporters of the
laws had expected the Supreme
Court to step into the case. They
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manned space flight
By Christopher Boden
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JIUQUAN, China
Keeping his identity secret,
China prepared its first astronaut
for space travel Tuesday and
loaded his rocket with fuel —
but said the public and the world
would have to wait to learn
whether the flight succeeds.
State television scrapped plans
fora live broadcast of the launch,
which the Web site of the
Communist Party newspaper
People’s Daily said would “most
probably” happen Wednesday
morning — Tuesday evening
EDI. A Hong Kong newspaper
said the cancellation was prompt
ed by fears of the “political
risks” of something going wrong.
A successful flight would
make China the third nation to
put a human into space on its own
— a propaganda prize in which
communist leaders have invested
11 years of secretive preparation
and untold resources.
Communist leaders hope the
history-making launch will boost
China’s standing abroad and,
more important, help the party’s
image among a populace weary
of corruption and other abuses.
See China on page 8
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Redistricting battle shifts to courthouse
By Natalie Gott
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — The battle over congressional
redistricting has shifted from the Capitol to the
courthouse.
Democrats are asking a federal court in Tyler to
stop the state from implementing a new
Republican-backed congressional redistricting
map, at least before the 2004 election cycle.
The court motion alleges that using the new map
would be disruptive because it moves more than 8.1
million Texans into new districts, that there are
strong arguments that the map violates federal law
and that the court has little time to consider such
questions before the 2004 election cycle.
U.S. Rep. Martin Frost, D-Arlington, said the
new map, signed into law Monday by Republican
Gov. Rick Perry, violates the federal Voting Rights
Act and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ban on racial
See Redistricting on page 8
Suicide car bomber targets
Turkish Embassy in Iraq
DAVID P. GILKEY • KRT CAMPUS
An Iraqi man who was injured during the second suicide car bomb in three days
talks with a U.S. soldier in front of the Turkish embassy in Baghdad Tuesday.
By Charles J. Hanley
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Suicide
car bombers struck in Baghdad
for the third time in a week
Tuesday, this time outside the
Turkish Embassy in yet another
blow against those who would
help the U.S. occupation.
Witnesses said the driver and a
bystander were killed, and hos
pitals said at least 13 were
wounded.
In the southern city of
Karbala, meanwhile, gunmen of
rival Shiite Muslim factions
clashed and witnesses said sev
eral people were killed or
injured. It appeared to be part of
a power struggle between forces
of the firebrand cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr and followers of reli
gious leaders who take a more
moderate stand toward the U.S.
occupation.
Just who is behind the car
bombings in the capital —
including two killing 18 other
people in Baghdad in recent
days — remained a mystery,
although Iraqis converging on
the scene Tuesday began
chanting pro-Saddam Hussein
slogans.
“This is the act of those who
want to turn Iraq into a terror
paradise,” said Turkish
Ambassador Osman Paksut,
whose government has offered
peacekeeping troops to rein
force the U.S. military presence
here, a move strongly opposed
by Iraqis.
Much of the blast was
absorbed by concrete barriers
outside the embassy, U.S. offi
cials said. The bomber might
have caught U.S. troops if he had
struck last weekend, when they
were deployed outside the mis
sion in northwest Baghdad,
apparently because of a threat.
“About three days ago, we
received indications that there
might be increased danger on
the Turkish Embassy,” said Col.
See Bomber on page 2